T w e n t y S i d e d
This one is a study in Xenobiology. And toilet jokes.
Self-Balancing Gameplay
There's a wonderful way to balance difficulty in RPGs, and designers try to prevent it. For some reason.
The Game That Ruined Me
Be careful what you learn with your muscle-memory, because it will be very hard to un-learn it.
In Defense of Crunch
Crunch-mode game development isn't good, but sometimes it happens for good reasons.
The Strange Evolution of OpenGL
Sometimes software is engineered. Sometimes it grows organically. And sometimes it's thrown together seemingly at random over two decades.
Mass Effect 3 Ending Deconstruction
Did you dislike the ending to the Mass Effect trilogy? Here's my list of where it failed logically, thematically, and tonally.
Wonder where they’ve hidden the person who thought of this.
This somehow reminds me of Yahtzee’s review of Call of Juarez: Bound in blood… something about eating danger and s…ting bullets.
I am reminded of finding unopened potato chips (or money) in the trash cans in System Shock 2.
I’m reminded of drinking toilet water in Fallout 3 to heal yourself.
I just picked up on the title: “The Circle of Ammunition”. Awesome.
But now I have The Lion King’s theme stuck in my head…
A little bit off-topic, but I wanted to say I like the new Stolen Pixels logo… it’s been there for a couple issues or so?… with sorta the stolen “O” look — did you make it yourself? (…and, your banner ads here for Stolen Pixels need to be updated, too :) )
I really like the idea of a society of people who eat nothing but guns and poo bullets. I would imagine it’s a very manly society.
From reading the title, I totally thought this was going to relate to the soldier turret’s magical ring of ammunition generation. Anyway, one time while I was driving through northern Texas with some friends, I found a half-dozen 22 bullets in a rest station urinal. I decided to leave them there for the next guy. I guess, in some respects, Texas is somewhat similar to Pandora.
Well, if my memory serves me right, I found my share of shotguns and 10mm pistols (with their respective ammo)in refrigerators in fallout 1 and 2. So, nothing new here. Well, except for the toilets.